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Esteban Peicovich interviews English writer Fiona Mackintosh. Mackintosh was born in Yelvertoft, Northamptonshire, England and was raised in the English countryside. She studied music for two years at the University of Cambridge and later studied French and Castilian, specializing in French and Castilian Literature. Afterwards, she moved to Oxford where she found a job in Santillana working on an English/Castilian dictionary. Mackintosh then took a post-graduate course about Hispanic American literature at Oxford University and wrote a thesis on Argentine writer Luisa Valenzuela. Mackintosh explains to Peicovich her particular interest in Argentine women's literature. She explains the fortunate circumstances she found herself in upon initiating her postgraduate education, which have facilitated her research in Argentine literature and have led her to Argentina. She and Peicovich discuss children's novels such as, Alicia en el pais de las maravillas, and how children might still take to them. Mackintosh talks about her own childhood, where her love for literature and music began. She presents the circumstances in which she toppled over the Argentine literature which struck her interest. She and Peicovich discuss the particular Argentine women writers which have struck her interest, such as Silvina Ocampo and Alejandra Pizarnik.
Converted with permission from sound cassette to compact disc by the Texas A&M University Libraries.
Interviewer, Esteban Peicovich ; interviewee, Fiona Mackintosh.
Originally broadcast from Buenos Aires, Argentina on August 28, 1998 as a segment of the radio program Los Palabristas.
Reproduction. Mackintosh, Fiona J. (Fiona Joy), 1970- Fiona Mackintosh. [1998] 1 sound cassette : analog.